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...Loyally, he painted his adopted country as a peace-loving land menaced by the West. Wrote Hearn: "An evil dream comes oftentimes to those who love Japan: the fear that all her efforts are being directed, with desperate heroism, only to prepare the land for the sojourn of peoples older by centuries in commercial experience . . . that her admirable army and her heroic navy may be doomed to make their last sacrifices in hopeless contest against some combination of greedy states...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Passionate Pilgrim | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

Maestro Arturo Toscanini landed on the dock in Manhattan, hale and chipper after a four-month sojourn in Italy and what he announced would be his last boat trip. "I enjoyed the voyage," admitted the 82-year-old perfectionist, but it took too long: from now on "I prefer air travel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Footloose | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...prospect of even a short sojourn in Lercara Friddi was enough to make an active man short-tempered. Lucky roughed up photographers at the entrance to his apartment building. Said he: "In the States I know what I can do and what I can't. Over here it's different. They got laws I don't know anything about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: City Boy | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

...Harvard ruggers opened their Bermuda sojourn by playing the Bermuda Athletic Association to a 3-3 tie. Al Green scored the Crimson's try on a penalty play and Sam Adams just missed registering another Harvard try. John Densmore, Crimson fullback, played an excellent game. Another back, Mike Peabody, suffered a broken shoulder. Eddin Davis blocked a strong BAA bid for a second...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two Deadlocks, One Defeat Greet Ruggers in Bermuda | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

Written in 1720 during Handel's sojourn in England, the work--more properly called a pastoral masque--was presented in the country home of the Duke of Chandos...

Author: By Alexander C. Hoagland, | Title: Lowell Music Group Revives 'Acis and Galatea' | 3/10/1949 | See Source »

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